POWAY: Mother of five admits to more bank heists

TERI FIGUEROA - tfigueroa@nctimes.com

A Poway mother who has admitted to robbing two Temecula banks
last fall pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of robbing two banks
in Poway.

San Diego prosecutors accused Roxanne Pennock of robbery and
burglary for heists at the San Diego National Bank at Community and
Poway roads on Sept. 30 and the US Bank at Scripps Poway Parkway
and Pomerado Road on Oct. 13.

Pennock was arrested last November following a robbery of a bank
in Temecula. Police said they found cash from the theft in the red
minivan she was driving.

The 37-year-old mother of five children was sentenced in
December to two years in prison after she admitted to robbing two
banks in Temecula in Riverside County.

In January, San Diego county prosecutors charged her with the
Poway thefts.

On Tuesday, Pennock pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and
one count of attempted robbery for the Poway heists.

During the first robbery, Pennock used a BB gun that she had
bought at a Wal-Mart a few days before the stick-up job, Deputy
District Attorney Allison Worden said.

Pennock didn't show the gun in the second robbery, but did use a
demand note, Worden said.

The prosecutor said Pennock netted a total of $2,340 in the
Poway robberies, which came before the Temecula heists.

The maximum sentence Pennock could get for the Poway thefts is
six years and eight months in state prison. Worden said Judge
Kathleen Lewis said she would consider sentencing Pennock to a
total of about four years in prison for both the San Diego and
Riverside county robberies.